limestone pavement

British

noun

geology a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks See also clint grike

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The trail runs past the “Checkerboard,” a limestone pavement formation, and Jeffrey’s Cave.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022

And it was obvious, at a glance, that the corridor in which we stood was spacious and airy, with a clean limestone pavement; that the disorder and shiftlessness of the Tombs was absent here.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian

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